brown's tree in the forest

Not much different going on in Gaby's room today. Her volumes have stayed up after the lung wash yesterday. It seems to have cleared up a lot of junk and worked more long term than the bronching from last week. I am hopeful that with continued suctioning today her numbers will stay up and show that improvement.

Another fun item to add to the mix of what is going on in her body is hematuria, blood in Gaby's urine over the past couple days. They have narrowed it down to one of two things, either the ECMO circuit needs to be changed out giving us a new mechancial lung and heart or she has an enzyme deficiency. If the urine clears on its own after stopping the antibiotic they just stopped then she has that deficiency. If it continues to be red then the circuit needs changed. So, not sure how to pray on this one as either option has its risks. Thankfully, God knows and will fill in the blanks.

We got a neighbor at the hospital today. I try to give them their privacy, but it is hard to not know what is going on when the hospital staff is a-buzz about the new patient. He was born yesterday and placed on ECMO last night in the room adjacent to us. His mom, having just delivered yesterday is across the street at the Women's Hospital. She can't even be with him right now. Things here sure put life into perspective.

Be thankful to Christ for your life today, your messed up human life and your new creation eternal life, and don't waste it on the things of this world.